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Part 1: Seamless Connectivity From Anywhere Today’s applications are no longer confined behind the walls of data centers. They are migrating to the cloud and being offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). These applications are built on a distributed architecture model and run across different systems. This puts new demands on the network to become more application aware, programmable, and intelligent to deliver the best application experience to any user on any device, anywhere. In a Multicloud…

Countless municipalities are growing at an exponential rate. The City of Pearland, for example, has seen its community grow from 37,000 citizens to 122,000 citizens over the past two decades. And the Houston suburb is not alone. With populations booming, there is tremendous pressure to digitize existing processes, develop new citizen services, and scale IT infrastructure to meet increased demand. These pressures have only increased in the wake of COVID-19, as more citizens and staff…

Today, companies invest in making their security controls scalable and dynamic to meet the ever-increasing demand on their network(s). In many cases, the response is a massive shift to Kubernetes® (K8s®) orchestrated infrastructure that provides a cloud-native, scalable, and resilient infrastructure. This is where Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native (SFCN) comes in. It gives you the flexibility to provision, run, and scale containerized security services. Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native brings together the benefits of…

While we grappled physically with COVID-19, donning masks and using hand sanitizer to protect ourselves against an unseen virus, another invisible pandemic was taking hold.   Behind snarky memes and jokes about too many wine bottles on the curb, lies a grim reality: the upheaval, isolation, fear, sadness, and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted mental health across the world. In the US alone, more than 32% of consumers reported experiencing anxiety or depression as a result of the pandemic.10   How we react to that impact…

Eight months ago, I applied for a Chief of Staff role with the Privacy Office at Cisco. Initially, I almost didn’t apply because I didn’t meet 100% of the requirements – my Privacy Impact Assessments were unknown, and I was not certified as an Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). I was worried that, as English is my second language, my grammar and communication skills might be inadequate. Hello, Imposter Syndrome. As the negative thoughts in my…